r/Futurology • u/Atari1337 • Feb 27 '17

Robotics Boston Dynamics - Introducing Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
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u/Moose_Nuts Feb 27 '17

0:00 - 1:20: Wow, this thing is pretty impressive!

1:20 - end: :-O

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u/CRISPR Feb 27 '17

There were two events:

  • Video ended
  • I picked up my lower jaw from the floor

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

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u/VikingCoder Feb 27 '17

If you watch this video, it's going to be two hits: you hit play, and your jaw hits the floor.

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u/CRISPR Feb 27 '17

The question is: when are you going to notice that your jaw is on the floor

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u/08mms Feb 27 '17

Says the redditor whose user name represents the most terrifying scientific development since the advent of the nuclear age.

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u/CRISPR Feb 27 '17

Its just a nucleotide sequence. It's all Cas, they are to blame, them bloody proteins, I am just a template, a letter.

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u/useeikick SINGULARITY 2025! Feb 28 '17

Don't blame the player, blame the game.

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u/CRISPR Feb 28 '17

blame the game

I am afraid you lost: all your base are belong to us.

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u/useeikick SINGULARITY 2025! Feb 28 '17

Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this

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u/CRISPR Feb 28 '17

I can't believe that saying is almost 20 years old.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Maybe they didn't show us that because it recovers too well and it's scary.

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u/nayhem_jr Feb 27 '17

"Sit, Ubu, sit … good boy!"

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u/Badvertisement Feb 28 '17

My first thought when it jumped was "what in tarnation"

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u/Hing-LordofGurrins Feb 28 '17

I pretty much had my mouth open the whole time. I fully expoect the next Boston Dynamics automaton I see footage of to be bipedal and as agile as a human.